We – Health, Ethics and Law Institute (the HEaL Institute) and Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) – at the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES) are pleased to bring you a critical, analytical blog space entitled ‘COVID-19 Insights’. As a collective, with a long standing commitment to ethics and rights; our goal of bringing these to you is to not let ethics, human rights and legal aspects relegated amidst the urgency of responding to the pandemic… more

Blog 31 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights & Beyond | February 4, 2026

Healthcare in Karnataka: Is a Health Bill the Need of the Hour?  | Akhila Vasan, Sylvia Karpagam, Teena Xavier | Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali

In spite of being one of India’s wealthiest state, Karnataka continues to perform poorly on key public health indicators compared to some of the other southern states (see Table 1) primarily because of structural and policy failures. However, it is no accident that the state continuous to be promoted as a ‘model’ for healthcare reforms, largely … more

Blog 30 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights & Beyond | October 18, 2021

Johnson & Johnson Letter | Third World Network Trust (India), The AccessIBSA Project, Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust, Forum For Medical Ethics Society, and Others

600 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) single dose vaccine – enough to vaccinate 600 million people – are being produced in India by Biological E, a Hyderabad-based company, on contract from J&J. As things stand, these vaccines will likely be exported to the European Union (EU)  … more

Blog 29 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights & Beyond | October 12, 2021

Letter to the National Health Authority (NHA) on the issues with the new CoWIN Application Programming Interface (API) “KYC-VS: Know Your Customer’s/Client’s Vaccination Status” | IFF, Ch-HELP and FMES-HEaL Institute

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) is a non-profit organisation that advocates for the rights of internet users in India. The Centre for Health Equity Law & Policy (C-HELP) is a research and advocacy … more